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deplume, v.|dɪˈpl(j)uːm|
[ad. F. déplumer (in OF. desplumer), or med.L. dēplūmāre, f. de- I. 6 + L. plūma feather.]
1. trans. To strip of feathers; to pluck the feathers off.
c1420Pallad on Husb. i. 698 Twies a yere deplumed may thai be. 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 310 Ye must cast your hawke handsomly, and deplume hir head behinde..and anoynt it with butter and swynes bloud. 1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. xxx. (1739) 141 Thus was the Roman Eagle deplumed, every Bird had its own Feather. 1651–3Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xv. 188 Such a person is like Homers bird, deplumes himselfe to feather all the naked callows that he sees. 1774Pennant Tour Scot. in 1772, 237 From the circumstance of its depluming its breast. 1847Gosse Birds of Jamaica 293 [The pigeons] are..deplumed and drawn..before they are sent to market.
b. To strip off (feathers). rare.
1599Broughton's Lett. viii. 28 There are that will..deplume your borrowed feathers.
c. transf. To pluck or cut off hair from. rare.
1775Adair Amer. Ind. 6 Holding this Indian razor between their fore-finger and thumb, they deplume themselves, after the manner of the Jewish novitiate priests.
2. fig. To strip or deprive of honour, ornament, wealth, or the like.
[1567Drant Horace Epist. ii. ii. H ij, Thence lighted I in Thessalie of fethers then deplumde.] 1651Fuller's Abel Rediv., Andrewes (1867) II. 174 [The bishopric] of Ely (before it was so much deplumed). a1661Fuller Worthies iii. (1662) 168 This Scotish Demster is an arrant rook, depluming England, Ireland and Wales, of famous Writers, meerly to feather his own Country therewith. 1779Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) IV. 588 His favourite amusement of depluming me. 1883L. Wingfield A. Rowe I. xi. 258 [They] kept gaming-tables..where the unwary were speedily deplumed.
Hence deˈplumed ppl. a., deˈpluming vbl. n.
1638Shirley Mart. Soldier iii. iv. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 219 The live taile of a deplum[e]d Henne. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. v. iii. §63 Thus on the depluming of the Pope every bird had his own feather. 1793Residence in France (1797) I. 170 A fowl..dressed without any other preparation than that of depluming. 1890H. A. Hazen in Science 23 May 313/2 The most singular fact is that the fowl lives under the depluming process [in a tornado]. |